I quit WoW Classic a while back because I couldn't find a balance between the game and work/household. Playing Minecraft on and off to stay sane. Gaming is the only thing that really turns off my brain regarding real life for a bit, like a wonky form of meditation.

Other than that things are fairly stable financially for a change after years of struggling. Gf got a new job in January after being unemployed for a while and can luckily work from home. She watches a lot of anime the rest of the time to unwind. I've been living that quarantine/social distancing life for years now, so doing well there. Websites are still chugging along making some money.

Managing the mental side of things without antidepressants isn't always successful, but it's been better now that the initial anxiety about this worldwide mess has settled down. The time I manage to effectively work I'm restoring an old dog website to its former traffic and financial glory (and later a cat one as well).

Since we're both massively overweight I am trying to grab an online grocery delivery slot so I can cut that bullshit out of my life as well. Even though a local supermarket is so quiet after 9pm it quite literally nearly made me cry out of happiness, if I don't have to go I'd rather not. Spend that time taking a walk in the forest and heathland next door instead.

So many dishes to do now though. So many dishes.

Hope you guys are well and not hit too hard by what's going on. And if you are, that it will improve quickly.

For me running around with some friendly faces now and then is more important than the specific name we do it under. I know we can share chat channels and use discord, etc. But it's also nice to just see some guildies online. So I'd rather do that under name X rather than be the only one online under a HoJ banner most of the time.

I'll sub once people are done pounding the servers into the ground on the first day or two. Need to reformat a machine to run it first and I'm sure I can come up with some names that end on -kini if my main is taken.

Doing a druid on both alliance and horde. Planning to run my night elf over to Dun Morogh to start that goat reputation grind early just in case I play longer term.

I guess that confirms it for me then. I think I'll let my dad run out his Vista experience until next year on his laptop as well. We were considering bumping him up to Windows 7 and then 10. He can always get a cheap new laptop with Windows 10 next year since he only uses a browser and the occasional Word document anyway.

There's a tool by a well known security expert that makes it easy to change/remove a registry key that will prevent Windows 10 from downloading/installing: